SOME DATA ON THE USSR MEAT INDUSTRY AS OF JUNE 1951

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• Publication Date: October 10, 1951
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic -Meat industry, livestock raising
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED 1 - 29 dun 1951
LANGUAGE Russian
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOME DATA ON THE USSR MEAT INDUSTRY AS OF JUNE 1951
Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources_7
Karelo-Finnish SSR
' Livestock in the republic increased during the last 2 years as follows:
cattle two times, hogs more than two times, fowl three times, and horses 34.2
percent.(L)
Estonian SSR
The 1951 livestock-increase plan will be exceeded as follows: cattle
5 percent (including cows, 10 percent), sheep 15'Percent, hogs 10 percent,
willebe10increased~ssofollowst~cattle 30np rcentf hogssl4cpercente fowlh29es
percAnt.(2)
Latvian SSR
In the postwar Five-Year Plan liveercentinsheepeand goatso25 Percent.
republic: cattle 20 percent, hogs 59 P ~
The number of livestock increase6 t~f ellows in the sovkhozes: cattle four
times, hogs 21.5 times, sheep 3? (3)
Bacon hogs are delivered to the government instead of cattle at :he
rate of 0.5 kilogram of bacon to one kilogram of beef. Since they take
only 9 months to raise bacon hogs consume less fodder. Last year, the
government declared to raise bacon production in the republic to 50,000
tons by 1955?(4)
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Lithuanian SSR
The 1951 Plan for increasing livestock is proceeding unsatisfactorily
in many rayons, especially in the following: Moletskiy, Nemenchinskiy,
5lmnasakiy, Panemunskiy, Salantayskiy, Shilal'skiy, Ramigal'skiy, and
gupiahskiy.
The period 15 June - 15 July has been decreed "Livestock-Raising Month"
in the republic.(5)
The 1951 livestock plan has been fulfilled for sheep only in Kel'meskiy
Rayon; cattle production here has been fulfilled only by 50 Percent, hogs
25 percent, Yowl 20 percent.(6)
The number of breeding livestock in the republic declined sharply
during World War II, but increased during the postwar Five-Year ercente
follows: cattle 7.4 percent (cows 10.5 percent) and hogs 39.3 P
The number of breeding livestock is increasing with the creation of kol-
khozes.(7)
In Vil'nyus Oblast 160 oY the 1,023 kolkhozes still have no cattle
and fowl farms. The only kolkhozes in the oblast which have Yand govarskiy
farms are those in Eyshishskiy, pnikshchyeyskiy, Zarasayskiy,
rayons.(8)
Belorussian SSR
The livestock situation in the republic is as follows:
By 1 May 1951 the 3-year plan Yor livestock increase had been fulfilled
by 196 kolkhozes for cattle, by 394 Yor sheep, and by 109 Yor hogs. The
following percentages show livestock plan fulfillment by the koercents Yowl
date: cattle 76 percent, hogs 55 Percent, sheep and goats 77 P ~
31 percent. Kolkhozes in Minsk, Polotsk, and Mogilev oblasts had not even
produced this much.
The number oY breeding livestock is increasing very slowly, especially
in Polotsk, Pinsk, and Minsk oblasta. During the lasteTCentrofathe5norm hs
the number of cows doubled, but this is still only 67 P
Yor the 3-year plan.
~lne republic livestock farms will breed the following n~eT290,000e
stock in the 3-year plan: 87,000 calves 630,000 suckling pigs,
lambs, and 3 million incubator fowl. They000 lambseiand one millionefowl.
tracts and purchases, 352,000 calves, 145, ~
Notwittlatanding the great importance oY these contracts and purchases of
livestock, these had been carried out as none~ws by 1 June 1951 cattle
4 percent, sheep 2 percent, and sheep -
Last year, the kolkhozes fulfilled the plan for .?attening cattle by
128 percent, but 46 percent oY 88epercenteoYvthedcattleedelivered haves
unfattened. In 1951 thus far,
been of poor quality.
Fifty percent and more of the income oY the landing kolkhozes came
from livestock in 1950? However, there are Yew such kolkhozes ercent rand
public. The average income oY kolkhozes Yrom livestock is 13 P ~
as low as 10 percent in Gomel' Oblast.
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Msny kolkhozes have no catine indGrodno,rMolodechnomsand Baranovichiion
of livestock is especially lagg g
oblasts.
G~~vernment credits for the purchase of livestock had been used as
follows up to 1 June: Pinsk Oblast 2 percent, Molodechno Oblast 6 percent,
Baranovichi Oblast 9 percent.
The percentage of breeding livestock on the farms of tercentuforesheep;
reached 14 percent for cattle, 23 percent for hogs~and 37 P
it is especially low in Mogilev and Polotsk oblasts. Valuable herds of
cattle are not provided with shelters in Pinsk and Grodno oblasts; also,
many flocks of pigs in Molodechno and Baranovichi oblasts do not have shel-
ters.(9)
Moldav~ SSR
The 3-year production plan envmilke6buttercrandeeggsl 5 times by 1951
over 1948 Qf meat, lard (or suet), ,
The prewar level of breeding cattle and fowl has been surpassed, as of
1950, as follows: cattle 40 percent, sheep and goats 63 percent, hogs
49 percent, and fowl two times.
By 1 June, the 1951 half-year plan for meat was fulfilled by 98.4 per-
cent. gowever, the ha1Y-year plan is proceeding unsatisfactorily in the
following rayons, where it had been fulfilled as follows by 1 June: Kamen-
skiy Rayon 62 percent, Duboasarskiy Rayon 69 percent, and Suslenakiy Rayon
78 percent. Kriulyanskiy and e~aplansfor meatnhadebeenlfulfilled byn73ro-
duction. By 20 May the half-y
percent in Chimishliyskiy Rayon.(10)
By the end of 1951 Planned livestock totals in Moldavian SSR are to
increase over 1941 as follows: cattle 7.5 times, hogs four times, sheep
five times.(11)
Georgian SSR
In 1951, the kolkhozes of Georgian SSR will purchase the following
breeding purposes~ll,OOOsbreedingtbullsthl,400uhogs,sandg2,300ert~for
Last year, kolkhozes in Zestafonskiy, Lagodakhskiy, S~ehkhe50 per-
Terzhol'skiy rayons did not carry out the mating campaign
cent of the cows did not produce any offspring.(12)
Kazakh SSR
ostwar Five-Year Plan resulted in the following increases in
livestock _~.n the republic: sheep and goatercentstThesovkiozes oftthe re-
percent, horses 106 percent, and fowl 93 P
public showed the following increases: sheep and goats 63 percent, horses
43 percent, and cattle 26 percent. The number of cattle increased consider-
ably over 1940.
Extensive breeding of sll livestock took place during the postwar Five-
Year Plan and the number of pedigreed livestock increased considerably in the
kolkhozes and sovkhozea. The livestock industry was also widely mechanized.(13)
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Meat production is proceeding suc.:assfully in Stepnoy, Klyuchevoy,
and Rodnikovskiy rayons of Aktyubinak Oblast.(14)
Livestock raising dropped seriously in various oblasts during the last
2 ,_srs, especially in Zapadno-Kazakhstan, Gur'yev, Yuzhno-Kazakhstan,
Dzhambul,and Alma-Ata oblasts.(15)
Uzbe;. SSR
pakhta-Abadskiy Rayon fulfilled the 1951 half-,year livestock-increase
plan by 20 June 1951?(16)
Turlcm_____en SSR
Livestock raisers of the republic have pledged the following livestock
increases in 1951: cattle 13 percent, horses 16 percent, and sheep and
goats 48 percent.(17)
Ta dzh_ ik SSR
Not enough attention is being paid to livestock raising in Kulyab Ob-
last, and the 3-year livestock-increase plan therefore may not be fulfilled
in this oblast. The number of cattle has decandsother rayonsl(18~hozes in
Bol'dzhaupskiy, Sary-Khasorskiy, Parkhaskiy,
Tadzhikskiy Rayon is the only rayon in Garm Oblast whim iin Garmskiyg
the:plan for meat production, whilandeotherorayons~ iTheafollowing rayons
Dzhirgital'skiy, Komsomolabadskiy,
had not fulfilled their quotas Yor certain kinds of livestock by 20 June:
Mikoyanabadskiy, Kirovabadskiy, and those of the Vakhsh Valley? Kuybyshev-
skiy and Dzhilikul'skiy rayons have not fulfilled theianimalssperisheddperng
one kind of livestock. The following number of young
100 females in Kuybyshevskiy Rayon: 21 colts, 28 calves, and 51 lambs.(19)
Kirgiz SSR
Livestock is raised exclusively for meat ing lefkaiy,wand Batkenskiyay
skiy, Chon-Alayskiy, Sovetskiy, Gul chinskian LShan Oblast.(20)
rayons of Osh Oblast and also throughout Ty
The number of livestock in Talass and Dzhal-Abed oblasts decreased due
to improper feeling in 1950?(21)
In 1951, 36 Percent of government credits given to kolkhozes in the
republic will be spent on livestock;~the credits cover a period of from
3 to 5 Years.(22)
Livestock breeding continues on a very low scale in the republic.
The 3-Yew' Plan for milk and wool was not fulfilled in 1949 and 1950.(23)
More than 60 portable butter and bryanza (cheese made from ewe's milk)
plants will be moved out to the summer pastures. Cattle from Suzakskiy
Rayon will be driven into the Sazy Reserve in Dzhalal-Abed Oblast, where
ports:blenbutteo and bryanza plant has been brought touthe ;aydykumsReserve,
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where the first centners of butter and bryanza have been processed Prom
herds from Achiaskiy Rayon. Eight portable bryanza plants will operate
in the summer pastures of Susamyr and on the Kok-Oyrok Reserve; the plants
are to produce 100 tons of bryanza. The portable milk and bryanza plants
and milk separator stations in the republic will produce about 40,000 cent-
ners of milk this yess.(24)
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Petrozavodsk, Leninskoye Znamya, 16 Jun 51
Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 28 Jun 51
Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 29 Jun 51
Ibid., 16 Jun 51
Vil'nyUS, Sovetskaya Litva, 6 Jun 51
Ibid., 19 Jun 51
Ibid., 14 Jun 51
Ibid., 28 Jun 51
Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorusaiya, 15 Jun 51
Kishinev, Sovetskaya Meldaviya, 6 Jun 51
Ibtd., 12 Jun 51
Tbilisi, Zesya Voatoka, 28 Jun 51
Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 16 Jun 51
Ibid., 20 Jun 51
Ibid., 10 Jun 51
Tashkent, Pravda Voatoka, 26 Jun 51
Ashkhabad, Turlonenskaya Iskra, 15 Jun 51
Stalinabad, Kommunist Tadzhikistana, 16 Jun 51
Ibid., 20 Jun 51
Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 28 Jun 51
Ibid., 17 Jun 51
Ibid., 14 Jun 51
Ibid., 1 Jun 51
Ibid., 13 Jun 51
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